Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty. Lona Manning 6 Apr 2019 · 26 min read
The Scars of Rwanda, 25 Years On Dallaire, abandoned in hell, the commander unable to command, let alone protect, developed severe post-traumatic stress disorder. Jessica Robeson 3 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends. Ewan Morrison 31 Mar 2019 · 8 min read
Socialism's Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program. Kristian Niemietz 30 Mar 2019 · 7 min read
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology. Jaspreet Singh Boparai 10 Mar 2019 · 18 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem. Evan Osborne 9 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
'Vice'—A Review The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies. Louise Perry 7 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Understanding Modern African Horrors by Way of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade The modernizing elites of these groups then fought with the British during WWI and WWII, and demanded independence after the war, which they got. Geoffrey Clarfield 6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius! Steve Salerno 29 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
Glenn Greenwald's Bad History Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government. Ronald Radosh 18 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 52 min read
60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start. Jorge C. Carrasco 7 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
"Heroic Guerrilla"—From Revolutionary Militant to Saint Before his corpse was cold, the Che cult had a ready-made logo; a brand. But what exactly does it signify? George Schifini 23 Dec 2018 · 13 min read
Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet In exile, Solzhenitsyn turned to harsh criticism of the West, not just for failing to stand up to the Soviet regime and fully confront its malevolence. Cathy Young 21 Dec 2018 · 14 min read
The Children of the Revolution Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. James David Banker 18 Dec 2018 · 9 min read